noun:

• lintel (lacking the grooves needed for a sliding door) - Architecture term ➜ 蹴放し

noun / suffix noun / ~の noun:

• the end (of); last time (doing); finishing up; closing - oft. after noun or -masu stem of verb

noun:

• Aceraceae; family of flowering plants including the maples ➜ 槭樹

noun:

• Caprifoliaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the honeysuckles

noun:

• Ebenaceae; family of flowering plants including the ebony

noun:

• Tiliaceae; family of flowering plants, incl. the linden

noun:

• nuclear family in the postwar generation - From English "new family"

noun:

• chopsticks (often written on the paper wrapper)

noun:

• little tern (the official bird of Chiba); sterna albifrons

noun:

• Mycobacterium leprae; the bacteria that causes Hansen's disease (leprosy)

expression:

• cheap fish for the masses (e.g. sardines, mackerel, pike)

noun:

• center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas) - obscure term

noun:

• reinforcing "bolt" stitch across the bottom of a seam

noun:

• language used in red-light districts during the Edo period ➜ 郭言葉

noun:

• drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

~と adverb / adverb:

• flutter; flap; sound of something light moving in the wind - onomatopoeia

noun:

• string tied across the open chest of a haori

noun:

• hypercholesterolemia; hypercholesterolaemia (excess of cholesterol in the bloodstream)

noun:

• day on which the temperate rises above 35 degrees Celsius ➜ 夏日・真夏日

noun:

• new schools of Japanese Buddhism founded during the Kamakura period

pre-noun adjectival:

• ideal; desirable; the way something should be; target; goal

noun:

• parison (first small bubble at the end of a blowpipe)

noun:

• coloured curtains hanging from the eaves of a Buddhist temple

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru"

noun:

• irregular conjugation (inflection, declension) of the verb "kuru" - abbreviation ➜ カ行変格活用